Digital collections and online resources

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Both teachers and students can benefit from the comprehensive digital resources and databases available through the National Library of Australia

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Australia Dancing Information about historical and contemporary dance in Australia

Australian Journals Online A database of Australian electronic journals

Australian Newspapers Beta Historical Australian newspapers from 1803 to1954

Digital Collections Items from the Library's Collections are selectively digitised - manuscripts, maps, pictures, printed music, books and ephemera

Electronic Australiana Links to online resources on various different topics

Libraries Australia A combined catalogue of Australian libraries: search, find and borrow from a catalogue of over 40 million Library items in all media

Mura Gadi A guide to manuscripts, pictures and oral histories in the National Library of Australia relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Music Australia Discover historical and contemporary Australian music, musicians, and composers, search by themes or media

Online exhibitions Curated exhibitions of Library Collections with an online presence

Pandora: Australia’s Web Archive Online Australian publications and websites archived since 1996

Picture Australia Search collections and themed trails for images of Australia and its people. Students can upload pictures into Picture Australia groups via Flickr

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